Judges 14:15

on the seventh day Would the young men have waited all this time before pressing the woman to extract the answer? In Judges 14:17 she is said to have tried herself to find it out all the seven days. The two statements are inconsistent. The LXX and Peshitto read on the fourth day; but this is suspiciously like what we should expect after in three days Judges 14:14. Most critics think that the numbers in Judges 14:14 were added to the original text in order to heighten the difficulty of the riddle and the despair of the Philistines.

unto us LXX unto thee. Samson could not be expected to tell the Philistines himself.

to impoverish us lit. take possession of, dispossess us. The reflex. stem has the meaning come to povertyin Genesis 45:11; Proverbs 20:13 etc.

is it not so? The Hebr. requires a slight correction: -was it to impoverish us that ye invited us hither?" So five Hebr. mss., Targ.